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On 18 December 1997, Clifford Cocks delivered a public talk which contained a brief history of GCHQ's contribution to PKC. [6] In March 2016, Robert Hannigan, the director of GCHQ made a speech at MIT re-emphasising GCHQ's early contribution to public-key cryptography and in particular the contributions of Ellis, Cocks and Williamson. [2] [7]
The GCHQ case also confirmed that non-legal conventions might be subject to "legitimate expectation". A convention would not have usually been litigable, and it was necessary for the court to demonstrate that it was in the present case: such a rule had been established in respect of Cabinet conventions in Attorney General v Jonathan Cape Ltd .
GCHQ was originally established after the First World War as the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) [3] and was known under that name until 1946. During the Second World War it was located at Bletchley Park, where it was responsible for breaking the German Enigma codes.
Director of GCHQ, Deputy Director General of MI5 Sir Jeremy Ian Fleming KCMG CB was the Director of the Government Communications Headquarters , the UK's intelligence, cyber and security agency. He was appointed in 2017 [ 1 ] and was the 16th person to hold the role.
The GCHQ trade union ban was a ban on trade union membership of employees at the Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham between 1984 and 1997. This was based on the claim by the Conservative government that it undermined national security .
Anne Louise Keast-Butler is the Director of GCHQ, the UK's Intelligence, Cyber and Security Agency. Appointed in May 2023, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] she is the seventeenth person to hold the role and succeeded Sir Jeremy Fleming .
Katharine Teresa Gun (née Harwood; [1] born 1974) is a British linguist who worked as a translator for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). [2] In 2003, she leaked top-secret information to a friend who passed it to The Observer.
GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, has sent out its annual Christmas card, complete with a set of puzzles aimed at Britain’s youngest minds. UK spy agency GCHQ reveals its Christmas ...